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HD newcomers The Pacific and Criminal Minds have helped TV One to rebound in the ratings. Monday’s second instalment of the WWII drama was more popular than the first and led TV One to win the slot with its target audience, 25-54-year olds, beat TV3’s CSI in the 18-49 demo and shrink the lead of [...]

If you missed Monday’s premiere of The Pacific, you can catch it again at 10.20pm on Sunday. As it did with Band of Brothers, TV One is screening same-week repeats of the World War II drama in HD. Having paid a premium price for the HBO miniseries, the network would have been buoyed by the [...]

The Pacific, which premieres 8.30pm Monday on TV One, isn’t the only wartime special you can look forward to seeing in HD. Amid the wall-to-wall World War I and WWII documentaries being released on DVD to commemorate Anzac Day is WWII Lost Films: WWII in HD. What distinguishes this History Channel series from the rest [...]

TV One at last will beef up its HD schedule this month with the launch of The Pacific and the fifth-season premiere of Criminal Minds. The 10-part Pacific will screen 8.30pm Mondays, from April 12, while Criminal Minds will air twice-weekly: new episodes in what was the Sunday Theatre slot, from April 11, and 9.30pm [...]

TV One’s flagship HD drama of 2010, The Pacific, didn’t draw the big-gun ratings HBO would have hoped for when it premiered on US TV at the weekend. It was watched by 3.1 million viewers, which was surprisingly modest given the publicity surrounding the launch of the World War II miniseries — and only a [...]

The first published review of The Pacific calls it “as sensitive and realistic portrait of American combat in the Pacific as you ever will see”. The hotly anticipated follow-up to Band of Brothers will screen in HD on TV One from April 5. The Hollywood Reporter today acclaimed the Tom Hanks-Steven Spielberg collaboration as “a [...]